Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Carrowmore (Carbury By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmore (Carbury By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.25032, -8.52069
- SMR number
- SL014-209014-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
At Carrowmore passage tomb cemetery. This boulder circle with central structure was destroyed in the 19th century. It is indicated on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a circle of dots located immediately to the east of a NW−SE field boundary. It is not shown on later map editions, but the OS 25-inch map (surveyed 1910; revised in 1940) shows a kink in the field boundary at the location shown on the OS 1837 map. Petrie inspected it in 1837 and recorded it in his notebook (no. 55, p. 72; Royal Irish Academy Ms. 23, L44) as follows: ‘Cromlech perfect, but covered with stones, circle perfect in parts. Stones removed to make a gardenwall.’ There is now no trace of this monument at ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 2 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.